Dress-shield



(No Model.)

H. S. COFFEEN.

DRESS SHIELD.

PatentedMay 31,1887.

ITJVIESSES I JV VE'JVTOR & 22? (2,79 an M I Attorneys 7 N. PETERS. Pholo-lfllwgnpiwr, Washington. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFICE.

HATTIE S. OOFFEEN, OF HOMER, ILLINOIS.

DRESS-SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 363,989, dated May 31, 1887.

Application filed January 19, 1887. Serial No. 221,773. (No model.)

To aZZ 1072 0712, it may concern. I

Be it known that 1', HATTIE S. COFFEEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Homer, in the county of Ohampaign and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in DressShields; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others'skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of this invention,and is a side view broken so as to show the second layer of cloth and the rubber cloth, oil-skin, or whatever is used as a protector. Fig. 2 is a vertical sect-ion before being fastened together.

My invention relates to dress-shields designed to be worn inside of the dress'sleeve and inside of the dress-waist at the armholcs, to absorb the perspiration of the body at these points and prevent it from soiling or saturating the dress fabric; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter described and-claimed.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates one ofthe dress-shields, two shields comprising a set. As the shields are similarly constructed, a description of one ofthem will answer for both.

The shields are preferably made in threeply form, or of three thicknesses of material. Each layer or thickness is made of two crescent-shape pieces. The outer pieces,B Qand the intermediate pieces, D E, are all of cloth, linen, or other suitable woven fabric. These four pieces are stitched together along their concave edges. The two inside pieces, F G, are of gossamercloth and have their cloth faces or woven faces placed together. The

pieces B O are stitched together along the chord-lines Hof theirarcsl J,so that thethickrated to permit the introduction of safety-pins L,or other suitable fastenings, for securing the gossamercloth to the intermediate thicknesses of woven fabric and also to the dress-waist and dress-sleeve. Two other safety-pins or other suitable fastenings,K,are employed to secure the woven fabric to the gossamer-cloth near the ends of the crescentshape pieces. By this means the woven fabric is removably secured to the gossamer-cloth and to the dress-waist and dresssleeve, so that when the woven fabric becomes soiled-it can be easily removed from the dress and from the gossamer-cloth and washed and ironed and again replaced. The free edges of the several thicknessesboth of gossamer-cloth and the woven fabric are preferably pink ed, as it gives a neater appearance and prevents raveling.

As the d ress-shields can be easily kept clean, one set of shields will answer for several dresses, as the shields can be changed from one dress to another when desired. The shields are fastened to the seam of the dress and the lining of the dress-sleeve.

Having described this invention, what 1 clai m,and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

The combination of thelower thickness of gossamer-cloth, formed of two crescent-shape pieces stitched together along their concave edges, and the intermediate thickness and outer thickness, formed of four crescentshape pieces of woven fabric stitched together along their concave edges and also along the chordlines H, and detachably secured to the gossamer-cloth by removable fastenings, substan; tially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HATTIE S. COFFEEN.

\Vitnesscs: t

O. W. GARWOOD, B. E. COFFEEN.

nesses below the chord-lines H may be sepa- 5 

